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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos Analytics

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Drill through difference in IE from reports html vs PDF

When you open a report using html and choose drill through the screen looks different then if you choose a pdf and then choose the drill through. The PDF one allows you to see the parameters being passed but the html doesn't. See the difference ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD

IMPLEMENT CLEAR FUNCTIONALITY WHENCLICKING ON X IN INTERACTIVE MODE FOR SELECT AND SEARCH PROMPT FIELD
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

NO WAY TO HIDE OBJECTS IN CIRCULAR MENU

When you hide the report toolbox for a role in customization > features, the (+) in the right pane to create a new object, that circular menu still shows all objects. No way to hide any of those options - List, Crosstab, Text Item, Block and Ta...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Attribute in crosstab table in a dashboard

It would be nice to be able to display attributes of a dimension alongside with the dimension itself. Currently we can only display either the element or one of the attributes, but not dimension + attributes.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Cancelling A User's Subscription

Having the ability to cancel a subscription would be helpful. They just sit out there and fail in bulk and there isn't really anything that can be done about them.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Refreshing License Count from Cognos Administration

In Cognos Analytics 11, the license count is defective. When user is not a member of any Administrators' group, it still counted as the administrator license.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add possibility to exclude dataset output in backup process

This functionality provides the possibility to exclude dataset output from the backup process.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add threshold lines to line, bar charts to demarcate where a pre-set %of measured value appears.

We have a requirement to display threshold lines on a line chat in a dashboard as indicated in the attached file "Add2ThresholdLinesToLineChart.gif". What we want is a line through the graph to show 70% breach in Amber and another line through the...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Content store consistency checker to clean groups

The content store consistency checker properly identifies users and groups in the content store that no longer exist in Active Directory. During cleanup, it will delete orphaned users in content store, but not groups. Please do groups too. Painful...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration